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WatermelonGun
May 7, 2009

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Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Stephen King is absolutely a hack but goddamn do I love his writing regardless (or perhaps because of it), and he's a gently caress sight better than Tom Clancy who as far as I know was like the only author who could really match up to King's ability to penetrate into into the world of people who typically don't read much of anything (maybe John Grisham too?).

That said, while I enjoyed Wizard and Glass goddamn did the Dark Tower series go off a loving cliff after that. He's said himself that he was putting off the last three books because he was paralyzed with fear that he wouldn't be able to finish what he started, then he got run over by that dog-driven van and realized if he didn't write it now it would NEVER get written so he pumped out the last three books crazy fast and the sheer drop in quality is extremely apparent.

Still it could be worse, he could be Dean Koontz.

Lid posted:

The Shawshank Redemption

Great book, even better movie :hellyeah:

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Shard posted:

What's ya'lls favorite movie? I really can't answer that anymore because there are so many I love but I KNOW what my first favorite movie was - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I rented that VHS like 100 times.

The Big Lebowski. With honorable mentions for Life of Brian, Yojimbo, Hot Fuzz, Major League, A Few Good Men, Tampopo, Drunken Master II, Aliens, and Django Unchained.

TMNT got me started as a comic book reader.

Bluedeanie
Jul 20, 2008

It's no longer a blue world, Max. Where could we go?



Eat My Fuc
May 29, 2007

Shard posted:

What's ya'lls favorite movie? I really can't answer that anymore because there are so many I love but I KNOW what my first favorite movie was - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I rented that VHS like 100 times.

Christine (2016) is my favorite movie and the performance of the lead is the best performance i've ever seen in a movie of any character.

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


Apollo 13

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Shard posted:

What's ya'lls favorite movie? I really can't answer that anymore because there are so many I love but I KNOW what my first favorite movie was - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I rented that VHS like 100 times.

Blue Velvet. It's the only perfect movie.

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


flashy_mcflash posted:

Blue Velvet. It's the only perfect movie.

I haven't seen that movie in like 15 years and I still occasionally shout "HEINEKEN? gently caress THAT poo poo" whenever I see Heineken, which is fortunately rare, or else I would be unbearable. More unbearable.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

"Okay Frank... here's to your gently caress :cheers:"


Like how your middle choices are bookended by horror films :hmmyes:

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



I can’t name just one movie so I’ll name let’s say five, in no particular order

Pan’s Labyrinth
Our Little Sister
The Road
Alien
Spirited Away

Captain Magic
Apr 4, 2005

Yes, we have feathers--but the muscles of men.
The Thing
Mad Max: Fury Road
Alien
Blade Runner
Halloween
Die Hard

It’s pretty cool when things blow up or poo poo goes crazy but you’re not a total rear end in a top hat about it, I guess is my bias.

TV Zombie
Sep 6, 2011

Burying all the trauma from past nights
Burying my anger in the past

I genuinely wish Aliens was played more on tv or on channels I got because I love that movie and the Dark Knight. I can't change the channel when those movies are on.

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

i dunno my favorite sorry

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

persona maybe or mulholland suck maybe or brigher summer day maybe or somethin lke that

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

Dean Koontz is proof that you can make a lucrative literary career out of rewrites and clever editing tricks.

WatermelonGun
May 7, 2009

yea ok posted:

i dunno my favorite sorry

it’s robocop

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

yeah

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31rrZeTH9HI

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!
Babe 2 Pig In The City and I am not even joking it loving rules

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

Quadrophenia is my personal favorite. No clue why but I'm absolutely enamored with that movie and watch it at least once a year.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

coconono posted:

Dean Koontz is proof that you can make a lucrative literary career out of rewrites and clever editing tricks.

"Hi I'm Cop Former, a former cop who loves my dog and just met a beautiful woman with a mysterious background. Me and my giant musclebound Korean best friend are going to use our special ops training we don't ever talk about to stop the evil psychic bad guy who we know is evil because they have weird sex thoughts. Also we're all Christian and evolution is a trick by Satan, but don't worry it'll all be sorted out in time for me to make it to visit the special education school where my beloved sibling with Down Syndrome lives. Also my dog can talk."

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

i liked needful things when i read it. i was like 14 but it was cool

ed: at the end he's a weird alien. hard to believe

Procrastinator
Aug 16, 2009

what?


El Gallinero Gros posted:


TMNT got me started as a comic book reader.

how the gently caress was grabbing all of those bells a basic entry test, the foot soldiers fuckin sucked

NINJA EDIT: wait that's 2 isnt it

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jaIBUQ-ds4

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

The Worm Has Turned

Fad
Nov 13, 2002

I dont care.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the only movie i refuse to watch again because it was a perfect movie to me and i didn't want to ruin it.

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
my favorite movie is Jurassic Park.

WatermelonGun
May 7, 2009
jurASSic FART!!!!!!


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LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

I don't know what my favorite movie is, but I've seen Hackers at least 40 times.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


My fav 5:

Annihilation
MIdsommar
Birds of Prey
Little Women (2019)
Frozen 2

Bluedeanie
Jul 20, 2008

It's no longer a blue world, Max. Where could we go?



Jerusalem posted:

"Hi I'm Cop Former, a former cop who loves my dog and just met a beautiful woman with a mysterious background. Me and my giant musclebound Korean best friend are going to use our special ops training we don't ever talk about to stop the evil psychic bad guy who we know is evil because they have weird sex thoughts. Also we're all Christian and evolution is a trick by Satan, but don't worry it'll all be sorted out in time for me to make it to visit the special education school where my beloved sibling with Down Syndrome lives. Also my dog can talk."

Wish I knew Deen Koontz was a writer on Walker, Texas Ranger. I would have started reading his poo poo ages ago.

Orange Carlisle
Jul 14, 2007

1. O' Brother Where Art Thou?
2. What We Do In The Shadows
3. The Prestige
4. Catch Me If You Can
5. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels/Snatch tied

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

Do top 10

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

If I'm going with the movie I've seen the most times it's absolutely Cool Runnings lol

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

flashy_mcflash posted:

If I'm going with the movie I've seen the most times it's absolutely Cool Runnings lol

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


France wins again

Pinwiz11
Jan 26, 2009

I'm becom-, I'm becom-,
I'm becoming
Tana in, Tana in my mind.



Sound of Music.

"I Have Confidence" is the best don't @ me.

Kvantum
Feb 5, 2006
Skee-entist

The Matrix
The Blues Brothers
Thor: Ragnarok
Wall-E
Casino (I know Goodfellas is the vastly superior movie, but there's just something about Casino that resonates with me.)

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

That owns lol

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Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
jurassic park
cats
reservoir dogs
jaws
ghostbusters
the lord of the rings movies
das boot
fitzcarraldo

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